About Black Rabbit Red’s 30th Birthday
Our classic red wine turns 30, so we're celebrating with
discounts on glasses, bottles and sangria, plus the one and only Cellarmaster's
Dip sandwich (rib eye, sautéed mushrooms & blue cheese on a Parmesan roll
with fries or tots)!
Black Rabbit Red Specials
- Happy
hour on glasses all day
- Bottles
for here $30
- Bottles
to go $20
The Wine
With ripe, opulent fruit flavor and lighter structure, our
2019 vintage offers notes of black cherry, plum, dried fig and a spicy
undercurrent of cherry bark, faint mint and toasted oak.
The History
It all began with an abandoned poor farm, a black rabbit and
big ideas. After leaping the hurdles that come with acquiring acres of land and
a newly anointed historic site, McMenamins opened the Edgefield Winery in 1990
and crafted our very first wines there, a white and a white Riesling. Others
soon followed.
By 1994 we were making more styles, and when it came time to
name what would become our signature Black Rabbit Red, the inspiration was
obvious: back in the early days a group of McMenamins folk stood in the midst
of the madness, trying to envision the property's future. Talk stopped as they
spotted a black rabbit, which hopped by and disappeared into its hole. That
rabbit became legendary, inspiring not just wine and art, but an attitude -
that of exploration, a "down the rabbit hole" way of experiencing what
McMenamins has to offer.
This week we celebrate Black Rabbit Red and the history it
represents. Salud!